Story Driven FPS

well hl2 is always a good place to start, call of juarez never gets a mention depsite a good, if not slightly cliched narrative based story and good gfx, would run pretty well i would imagine on your 4850 in dx10 mode.

I don't really play too much myself as i'm a miserly git but others will suggest some others, the storyline may prove difficult to meet as most are just blast your way through.

maybe not fps, but perhaps some action rpg's would be worth checking out like might and magicark messiah, oblivion and the witcher. The first two are first person the last is third person but a great story line based on fantasy novels by andrejz sapkowski and also very good combat and gfx.

I should have mentioned ive gone through Oblivion and Orange Box on my trusty 360. Along with Bioshock as well come to think of it.

Call of Juarez I have heard of but never recommended so i will check it out.


If i see one more RPG after spending over a year raiding 6 hours a night on WoW i will cry like a little puppy who just lost his bone.
And then had his tail run over to boot.

Bioshock, Mass Effect, Frontlines Fuel of War, off top of my head.

BioShock has a good story for an FPS. Mass Effect has a great narrative but it's a 3rd person RPG, not an FPS. If you want to go back a little further, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay has an excellent story for a movie-inspired game. It's also one of my all-time favorite FPS titles and I can't seem to shut up about here on the forum.

Agree with tallguy here. I just started playing fallout 3 yesterday and it really looks great. You can alter your playstyle (FPS or VATS) just by using either one. Let's say first two shots cowboy style and then a critical finisher to the head... Great concept really. And the rest looks awesome, too.

In Mass Effect, you have to aim and shoot in real time, compared to KOTOR's turn based combat. Other than that's they're pretty similar.

Presumably you have visited Dues Ex 1 and Red Faction 1. Worth (re)investigating since they are spawning the third generation in these series. Both series had a lamentable second episodes so expectations are high that lessons have been learnt, etc!!

Red Faction 3: is in beta ETA. The story line is outlined here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Faction_3

It apparently has an interesting/unique line in destructible environments : the GeoMod System (4+ years in development). Everything in the world is modeled in great detail. So much so that the game modelers had to have basic architectural training to ensure there buildings wouldn't fall down to easily!! Sounds like it goes beyond the structural physics used in Crysis for example. I almost cried when I heard it was 3rd person this time. But it is a kind of "a-behind-the-head" FPS because otherwise you can't see bits of buildings falling down on you!! It was originally meant to be FPS as per RF1 and RF2 but you died too easily in buildings because of falling masonry!!

Dues Ex 3 ETA Winter 2009?? I really hope they don't screw this one up!! I have gone back to Dues Ex: Invisible War and it does benefit a lot from a newer system (it was unplayable on the GPUs available at the time it was released). Still it was too dumbed down from the original to interest most folks at all.

Bob

Just thought of something obscure: Star Wars Republic Commando.

There's also Advent Rising, with plot written by Orson Scott Card (author of Ender's Game). It's a third person shooter, just like Mass Effect. But in term of "story driven," it's the holy grail.